last updated 15.Jun.2007 |
Cyphomyrmex Cyphomyrmex is a genus of small, cryptic fungus-growing ants that are among the most commonly encountered of the attines. The gardens of some species are unusual in that the fungi do not grow as a white, mycelial mass as they do in most other attine gardens but as a yeast. The yeast gardens are fed with the feces of Lepidopteran larvae and are often built on a substrate of beetle elytra.
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